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UK Cigar Scene
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UK Cigar Scene is a new free On Line Magazine dedicated to the history, the events, the people and the places of the UK Cigar Scene.
On our TH-cam Channel we will have monthly video interviews and interview related to the UK Cigar Scene. Please subscribe to get an automatic notification each time a new video is uploaded.
If you would like to receive details of the new magazine and to get the first edition of UK Cigar Scene, please register your email address on our web site www.ukcigarscene.com
Five years ago I created the Cuban Cigar Walk London which is now part of the London Cigar Guide App . Now it’s time for the next stage on the journey...
On our TH-cam Channel we will have monthly video interviews and interview related to the UK Cigar Scene. Please subscribe to get an automatic notification each time a new video is uploaded.
If you would like to receive details of the new magazine and to get the first edition of UK Cigar Scene, please register your email address on our web site www.ukcigarscene.com
Five years ago I created the Cuban Cigar Walk London which is now part of the London Cigar Guide App . Now it’s time for the next stage on the journey...
Humidors & Humidification for UK Cigar Scene
How to select, set up and run your humidor to ensure your cigars are kept in perfect condition.
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Philip Shervington Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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In 2015 Phillip Shervington celebrated 50 years in the Tobacco trade and he is still working as hard as ever dispensing his huge knowledge of pipes and cigars to the customers at James J Fox in St James's street, London.
Alan Greenspan Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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This month we are delighted to interview a proper Hollywood movie mogul. Alan Greenspan has his name on the credits of such films as Donnie Brasco, High Fidelity and Fever Pitch and he is also a cigar lover. Enjoy the interview.
Lighting & Enjoying your Cigar - UK Cigar Scene
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How to light and enjoy your cigar. Do's and don’ts for lighting, band on or band off? Relighting your cigar, ash etiquette and finally when you have finished, allowing your cigar to go out.
Masters of Habanos at James J Fox Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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Masters of Havana Cigars From the February 2016 UK Cigar Scene Magazine bit.ly/F16Vid For the latest in our series of Video Interviews we have moved to the Sampling Lounge at James J Fox in St Jame's Street London. Our interview is with Nic Barker and Halil Osman two of the stores three Masters of Habanos.
Cutting Your Cigar UK Cigar Scene
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In the first of our Technical Videos we cover the many alternative ways to cut your fine cigar.
James Suckling - A Little Extra Bonus
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When we finished our October interview with James he still had some of cigar to enjoy and we still had some questions so we let the cameras run.
Marc Sinden Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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This month we interview Marc Sinden; Actor, Director, Producer and Cigar Lover.
James Suckling Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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In our latest video Interview UK Cigar Scene interviews James Suckling. James talks about his career as a journalist covering both wine and cigars, his documentary film on the Cuban cigar Industry, his views on the future of Cuban cigars with start of the thaw in US/Cuban relations and much more.
Ray Gelato Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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In the latest of the UK Cigar Scene Magazine one to one interview with cigar lovers we interview UK Jazz giant Ray Gelato. Ray, and his band, have played all over the world and Ray loves to relax with a cigar during his down time between gigs, as he tells us.
Darren Cioffi Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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Our interview with 2014 World Cigar Smoking Champion Darren Cioffi when he visited the UK for the UK Qualification leg of the 2015 tournament.
Eddie Sahakian Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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In our latest video Interview UK Cigar Scene interviews Eddie Sahakian of Davidoff London. Eddie talks about the store and their latest venture the Edward Sahakian Cigar store at London's Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge.
Cigar Box Guitars for UK Cigar Scene Magazine
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Geoff Hawkins has been making beautiful cigar box guitars since about 2010. His guitars are on sale at the Davidoff store in London and you can see more images on his Facebook Page: geemancigarbox?fref=ts
Jemma Freeman interview for UK Cigar Scene
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Jemma Freeman is the Managing Director of UK Habanos importer Hunters & Frankau. Our interview coincides with the companies 225th Anniversary. To celebrate Hunters have had the most wonderful Ramon Allones cigar produced in Havana and a stunning cabinet to go with it.
UK Cigar Scene The Origins of Macanudo Outtake
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The Macanudo cigar brand had it's origin's in Cuba and later in Jamaica. Derek Harris (ex Chairman & Managing Director of Melbourn Hart - UK Cigar Importers) tells the story of the origin of the Macanudo name and the brands early years.
Derek Harris Interview for UK Cigar Scene
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Derek Harris Interview for UK Cigar Scene
Richard Paterson Interview UK Cigar Scene Magazine
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Richard Paterson Interview UK Cigar Scene Magazine
Ranald Macdonald Interview for UK Cigar Scene Magazine
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Ranald Macdonald Interview for UK Cigar Scene Magazine
Simon Chase Interview Part 2 UK Cigar Scene Magazine
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Simon Chase Interview Part 2 UK Cigar Scene Magazine
Cigar Education Anejados & Vigia Pronunciation
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Cigar Education Anejados & Vigia Pronunciation
Close of Cuban Cigar Walk Sir Winston Churchill's last cigar
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Close of Cuban Cigar Walk Sir Winston Churchill's last cigar
Simon Chase Interview Part 1 - UK Cigar Scene Magazine
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Simon Chase Interview Part 1 - UK Cigar Scene Magazine
You are sooo off the track James !!
Great interview with the great James Suckling! I enjoyed my pipe while watching this video.
Do cigars generally taste good with wine or is it rarely a match ?
It just depends. Try things for yourself that you think you may enjoy together, then find out. I'd recommend from my personal preferences to drink with cigars that a nice, soft sparkling wine can go really well - the flavour is delicate and refreshing and also the fizz helps clean the palate. Any wine that's particularly tart or sharp tasting won't compliment too well. Heavy tannin wines coat the palate with tannins. I used to try more red wines with cigars, some were nicer than others and also the cigars tended to be fuller bodied. However these days I've settled on my favourite drinks with cigars to be coffee (whatever style I fancy at the time really), a good complex single malt (particularly Lagavulin) and glass of water or a soft sparkling wine of some sort.
Cuban tobacco is the best, margin isn't as wide as many think among Honduran, Nicaraguan and Dominican tobacco...but the construction isn't as consistent in my experience
well, between scotch and nothin' i suppose i'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find
Hi UK Cigar Scene! Great Vid! Thank you Nic Wing! I'd just like to reconfirm that are all Cuban cigars frozen prior to sale/release? I thought this wasn't done and only NC cigars were frozen to prevent tobacco beetles? Also when did the Cuban Cigar industry start freezing their cigars prior to them being sold? Thanks, Dencof
Hi Denkcof, My understanding is that all Cuban production has been frozen before leaving Havana for a few years.
sounds like the cigars coming over 25 years old hit their 3rd maturation period!
the hygrometer you are using comes with a manual. The manual says NOT to do the salt test
Fascinating dichaos. Why do you think that is? Can't do the mechanism any damage as the salt gives off humidity at a level which should be well within the level the unit measures.
Salt water is an electrolyte which conducts ions, speeding up rusting. Fascinating indeed. Get a Boveda One-Step Hygrometer Calibration Kit instead for 6£.
Surely it's the water which has evaporated which gets into the hygrometer. That's not going to contain any salt is it? It would have to be direct contact with the salt/salt water. Having said that I'm going to order a Boveda pack and give it a go, thanks for the information.
Thank you for this excellent review. It is very helpful for me as beginner in cigar smoking. :)
A real gentleman!
Great Interview again Nic as always. I tend to notice there is a large focus on Cuban cigars and with these interviews and I disagree with James' comments when he claims that Havana, Cuba has the best quality tobaccos in the world. They most likely did have the best tobaccos in the world for hundreds of years, but it's safe to say that in the last 20 years, the quality of tobaccos from Nicaragua, Peru, Mexico, Dominican Republic and in some other countries around the world has greatly improved and are now undoubtedly rivalling the quality of tobacco grown and produced in Havana, Cuba, especially in the much higher quality brands of cigars being manufactured in other countries nowadays. Just some observations I have made as a cigar smoker for 20 years.
If you like cigars and you want to try something completely new for the most of people, come in Tuscany, in particular to Sansepolcro, near Arezzo, and try the cigars of CTS (compagnia toscana sigari), like "Mastro Tornabuoni Long" or "Stortignaccolo" ;)
I can agree and disagree. Taste is such a subjective thing. I started smoking cigars with non Cuban varieties and settling mainly on Padrons. I was then given a sampler of Cuban cigars. And to honest Cuban cigars have the best flavors for my palate. So much so that if I couldn’t get Cuban cigars anymore I’d stop smoking all together. Fantastic video and discussion guys. Enjoy the comments.
100 per cent. not only the tobacco,, but construction, quality control, variety, all of it. they use automation in their curing barns, vertically integrated operations where the same people control the whole process seed to smoke. you get so much more variety also. cubans are all puros, its all leaf from cuba. these new world cats use leaf from all over the americas. the variety is beautiful. sumatras and mexicans and ecuador and honduras, the DR. i dunno just far more interesting to smoke stuff from all over imo. the best cigars come from everywhere, but the most consistently well made ones come out of nica, regardless of where the leaf is grown. then you wanna talk about what youre getting for the price and its a no brainer. i smoke mainly cigars that use leaf grown at the aganorsa farms and lemme tell you, the embargo could be lifted tomorrow and it wouldnt change my routine in the least.
there is something special about the soil in Cuba. but for me Nicaragua and Peru have a lovely flavor as well. Peru has a smoothness that u often don't get with that much flavor. I used to live in lima, and it was one of my favorite activities to go down to the water and have a fine cigar while the sunset. highly recommend it.
Very informative.. thanks.
Blimey the ASH nazis et al would have his dad strung up these days for "exposing" his little boy to cigar smoke! These people won't be happy until smoking of all stripes (including vaping) is illegal and banned altogether! Anyway,great interview.I very much agree with him in terms of "New World" cigars giving Cubans a good run for their money. I'm a huge fan of Nicaraguan tobacco and to my tastes at least the best of Nicaragua rivals and in some cases surpasses Cuba!
It was pleasing to not hear the concept of band removal being referred to as a "British etiquette" notion.That's something that for some reason really irritates me.The idea that anyone would leave the band on as a means of "showing off" is,in my humble opinion,complete nonsense,certainly among the vast majority of cigar smokers at least. And the idea of taking it off immediately in order to remove any sense of one-upmanship is simply an irritating neurosis on the part of the smoker. The bands are pieces of artwork in their own right that someone has spent all their working day putting on and meticulously getting just right.If you're smoking a Cohiba Siglo VI,for example,amongst friends and have removed the band due to this etiquette rubbish what are you going to say when the almost inevitable question of what you're smoking comes up? Are you going to deny what it is and claim that it's just from from some cheap Honduran bundle that you picked up for £30?!! Seriously,build a bridge and get over it!
He doesn't look Alan Greenspan.
+kanervatie This is the 'Hollywood' Alan
I see Mr. Paterson had to relight his cigar a few times. I noticed most videos never show people relighting like its embarrassing. Theres no shame in relighting a cigar (or a pipe), the same as adding water to whiskey.
thanks for bringing up the pipe into the program ... love to see more about pipe smoking too
Doesn't a cedar spill have flavor?
+gcoundou Interesting, I don't use spills very often but I have never been aware of a particular flavour when using one. The spills made from the 'shim' within the cigar boxes have very little 'cedar oil left so I wouldn't expect a strong flavour from those.
Another fantastic vid/interview Nic! Cheers :)
my favourite film and my favourite film producer :-)
Is that the same cigar through both parts of the interview?
+gcoundou It is, it was a Rome y Julieta Churchill
Well done mate. Look forward to having one with you next time in London.
Career goals ^^
What a fabulous woman. One of my greatest moments was meeting her. Thank you Edward.
What a perfect young man
What a great interview, photo's and inside look at a world class cigar store.
great video. I am looking at buying my first (proper) cigars soon. Quick question, for how long and where/in should I store these? keep in mind I don't own a humidor and what to get more into cigars before I purchase one? thanks
+Max Lewis Max, your cigar store or on line supplier should put the cigars in a sealed pouch or bag, this will keep them in good condition for 7 - 10 days. Any longer than this and my advice would be to ask them for a small Boveda humidification 'pouch'. This gives off a controlled level of humidity (you want somewhere between 64% and 70% RH). If you put your cigars in a zip lock bag with the pouch, they will keep for weeks. But open the bag every week to 10 days just to let a little oxygen in. We are working on a humidification video which will be out in the next 2-3 months. Keep watching the magazine.
+Max Lewis An airtight Tupperware container with Boveda humidity packs should do you just fine. I've got one that will hold ~40 cigars with 2 69%RH packs that keeps my cigars between 68 and 70 percent humidity. www.canadahumidor.com/passive_humidifiers/boveda_69_humidity_pack/ Here's a good page to give you an idea as to what you will personally need.
+killertakoz8D thanks!
+UK Cigar Scene thanks look forward to new video
Great video Nic, the next best thing to smoking a cigar is to listen to someone enjoying and explaining how to smoke one. Looking forward to the next video as not sure how well I keep my cigars, luckily they tend to not stay in there too long!
Seems like Richard is on his best behavior
Great vid as per. Congrats to these guys- I tired the sample exam and I thought I knew a significant amount about cigars but I did pretty lousy lol.
nice video. waiting one with Laurence Davis.
Montecristo no 3 or 4? what are they smoking?
+gcoundou You can find details of the cigar they are smoking in the February 2016 UK Cigar Scene Magazine here bit.ly/F16Vid
Lovely video, thank you kindly.
Great interview. You got to give it to the guy, he's the most charismatic face of Scotch whisky. I probably wouldn't wanna work under him, but I certainly enjoy listening to him. Very entertaining and informative.
The best interview I've seen of Richard... wow, what a man!
your page cannot be found...
+Chris Bults Sorry Chris, which page can't you find?
+UK Cigar Scene your website you gave in your comments think it was www.ukcigarescene.com
+Chris Bults Try www.ukcigarscene.com/ that will do it!
nosing.....lol.. .that's my neighbour. ....
no.1 st james street, dunhill
Great clip thanks for sharing Nic!
Great extra clip. Thanks for the upload! One suggestion: Depending on the camera settings try changing between 25/30 or 50/60 hz to get rid of the flickering of the light in the humidor in the background! In the close up shots the focus is on his watch and in the wider shot the focus is on the humidor, was the camera guy sleeping? :D But except that excellent quality as always!
+LAtechniker Thanks, we will pass on your comments.
Super interesting, really excited to visit Cuba in the future.
What a lovely story. By sheer coincidence I have a Macanudo on the go right now!
Great job Nic
great interview! also wonder about his smoking habits... how many cigars does he smoke in a typical week?
Nicely done Nic.
+Richard Hancock Thank you Richard.
Beautiful Interview,, Would love to get more of this,, Thank you very much : )
+dennis paplow We have a new interview each month in UK Cigar Scene Magazine. To make sure you get a copy subscribe here www.ukcigarscene.com/newsletter/
Thank you UK cigar scene and Thank you Darren! I really appreciate these interviews, please continue to put out this great content!
where was this?
+boothby17 It was filmed at No 1a St James's Street London, a cigar store
I have burned through all these interviews. Much like a fine cigar I would like to enjoy one more.
John T Don't worry, we have more 'in the can' and lots more planned!
Great interview of the master… hope they get it…. Palbo Escobar…in Valley Center.